Where more liberal Jews sometimes choose to keep kosher homes but eat at non-kosher restaurants, or eat shellfish but abstain from the ultimate treyf ("non-kosher"), that is, pork, Orthodox Jews eat only kosher food, keep separate sets of dishes for dairy and meat, and wait six hours between eating meat and dairy (but not vice versa).

Although she didn't keep kosher in college or while working, it was after culinary school "that I sort of reconnected with my Jewish observance," Garelick says, adding that she and her husband consider themselves modern Orthodox Jews.

Miller, interviewed in a tiny wood-paneled office crammed with religious books, Jewish calendars and assorted souvenirs from Israel, told CubaNews that a butcher shop in Old Havana sells kosher meat three times a week at subsidized prices to registered members of the Jewish community--even though few people here actually keep kosher homes.

The suit against McDonald's, for instance, forced the company to more accurately describe its ingredients and give $10 million to nonprofit groups representing vegetarians, poorly nourished children, Hindus, Sikhs, and Jews who keep kosher.

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